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<h1>About shortcut metrics</h1>
<p>Shortcut metrics are a quick way to add new metrics to a report, based 
 on the metrics in the report. They are available when you right-click 
 on a metric column header or the data in a column of metric data. They 
 only apply to the report in which they are created; you cannot reuse them 
 on another report.</p>
<p>Shortcut metrics include the following:</p>
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<li class=p><p>
<a HREF="Steps_to_create_a_shortcut_metric.htm">Percent-to-total</a> 
 metrics, which display the percent in relation to a selected total of 
 each item affected by the metric.</p></li>
	
<li class=p><p>
<a HREF="Transformation_shortcut_metric.htm">Transformation</a> 
 metrics, which apply offset values, such as &quot;four months ago,&quot; 
 to the selected attribute.</p></li>
	
<li class=p><p>
<a HREF="Creating_rank_shortcut_metrics.htm">Rank</a> 
 metrics, which apply a ranking number to the metric values for a given 
 attribute.</p></li>
</ul>
<p>Rank and Percent-to-total shortcut metrics are derived metrics. Derived 
 metrics do not require the report to be re-executed against your data 
 warehouse. Transformation shortcut metrics must be calculated in SQL, 
 therefore the report is re-executed to display the new metric.</p>
<h2>To create a shortcut metric</h2>
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<li class=p><p class="whs3">Click the name of a report 
 to execute it. The report must be in either Grid view or Grid and Graph 
 view.</p></li>
	
<li class=p><p>Right-click the column(s) or row(s) for which to create 
 a new metric, select <span style="font-weight: bold;"><B>Insert Metric</B></span><span>, 
 and then select one of </span>the following. For steps to create each 
 type of metric, click the links below.</p></li>
	<ul type="disc" class="whs1">
		
<li class=p><p>
<a href="Steps_to_create_a_shortcut_metric.htm">Percent-to-total</a> 
 </p></li>
		
<li class=p><p>
<a href="Transformation_shortcut_metric.htm">Transformation</a> 
 </p></li>
		
<li class=p><p>
<a href="Creating_rank_shortcut_metrics.htm">Rank</a></p></li>
	</ul>
</ol>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p class="whs4">Related topics</p>
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<li class=p><p>
<a HREF="Steps_to_create_a_shortcut_metric.htm">Creating 
 a percent-to-total shortcut metric</a></p></li>
	
<li class=p><p>
<a href="Transformation_shortcut_metric.htm">Creating 
 a transformation shortcut metric</a></p></li>
	
<li class=p><p>
<a href="Creating_rank_shortcut_metrics.htm">Creating 
 rank shortcut metrics</a></p></li>
</ul>
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